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David Livingstone was the first European recorded to have viewed the falls on 16 November 1855, from an island now known as Livingstone Island, one of two land masses in the middle of the river, immediately upstream from the falls near the Zambian shore. [3]
1.24.3 Scotland. 1.24.4 Wales. ... Victoria Falls (David Livingstone named the great Mosi-oa-Tunya falls after Queen Victoria) ... Victoria Falls Hotel;
Blantyre (listen ⓘ or listen ⓘ; Scottish Gaelic: Blantaidhr [4]) is a town and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, with a population of 16,900. [5] It is bounded by the River Clyde to the north, the Rotten Calder to the west, the Park Burn to the east (denoting the boundary with the larger adjoining town of Hamilton) and the Rotten Burn to the south.
Livingstone is a city in Zambia. [1] Until 1935, it served as the capital of Northern Rhodesia.Lying 10 km (6 mi) to the north of the Zambezi River, it is a tourism attraction center for the Victoria Falls [2] [3] [4] and a border town with road and rail connections to Zimbabwe on the other side of the Victoria Falls.
Constructed in 1950, as a domestic airport, it became an international destination due to its proximity to the Victoria Falls, only 15 kilometres (9 mi) to the south, by road. Between 2011 and 2017, the government-owned Zambia Airports Corporation Limited ( ZACL ), which operates the airport, renovated and improved the airport infrastructure ...
‘Spout’ is another common word found throughout England and Scotland for particular types of fall though it is usually replaced by ‘sput’ in the formerly Gaelic-speaking parts of the latter. The Gaelic word ‘eas’ is by far the most common term for a waterfall in the Scottish Highlands where the majority of place names are of Gaelic ...
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